Notes

[1]This is written on a note from the Managing Department of the
R.C.P.(B.) Central Committee to Lenin, putting to the vote the
question of authorising the Moscow Workers’ Co-operative to
procure potatoes directly from the peasants.

A. A. Kissin and N. P. Bryukhanov took a negative
attitude to this, believing, however, that the Moscow Co-operative
could have its agents and acceptance stations under the gubernia
societies. They held that, procurement in circumvention of
gubernia societies would tend to breed speculative commodity
exchange.